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LETTER: Student suicides are a crisis

Updated March 23, 2021 - 10:17 pm

Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara reported 23 student suicides for the year in a population of 307,210l (“Student suicides focus of meeting,” Wednesday).

The Clark County Health Department reports three deaths from COVID-19 in the same 5-17 age cohort, but population 406,575. Tell me again: Why they are not in school, and upon whose back does that reasoning fall?

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